Thanks for the help. The card did show up in the device manager and even got the driver to supposedly show up. I used the last reference driver.

Trying games I would either get a "mapmem driver initialization failure" whenever I tried other drivers, but with the last reference driver games would start loading then freeze. Sometimes I would reach the menu and be able to select 'glide' or 'software' so it seems that some games DO see the card but again when actually starting a game it would freeze and/or get a black screen while loading the graphics.

I had heard from somewhere else about potential AGP conflics and thought that my card was too 'new' in comparison and it seems like the problem is due to something stopping the driver from working. I'll look into getting a PCI card but will try your other suggestions first.

I did not know about the Win98 memory problem. I also will try and find less memory as I have just a 512mb stick at the moment so for now I will try that fix for Win98.

Thankyou again for the help and ideas. I'll see what I can do with it!

Hello, I'm new to this sort of thing but it's not like installing a Voodoo2 should be all that difficult. For some reason I cannot get any game to see the Voodoo card even though it shows up in the Device Manager. When clicking on the driver tab though in manager it says that 'no device driver needed or detected'. Is that the problem?

I used just about every combination of reference and third party drivers, manually moved the glide.dll files to windows registry, tried the card in an XP machine then did a fresh install of Win 98 on a P4 2ghz, 512 RAM, Geforce 4 Ti4200 (my current box I'm trying to get it to work)and nothing seems to work!

Every game complains that 3dfx card not detected despite seemingly no problems in device manager apart from the strange lack of driver, but I don't know what to do(if anything is even needed) about that. I tried updating driver, but it just goes through the motions of 'reinstalling' and nothing changes.

Could there be something wrong with the card? It seems in top class condition. One other thing, in Win98 it freezes whenever I try to click on the voodoo2 tab in properties and I keep getting a rundll32 error quite regularly after 'installing' the voodoo2 which I never got when just the Geforce was there.